18 May 2017
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Last night, we lay down on sunbeds and watched Mrs Moon rise like a tangerine over The Aegean Sea. To capture the beauty of the scene fa... -
Chavs being chavvish. Just the other day, I spotted a male "chav" down by the local Methodist church. He was wearing a Burberrry ... -
So there I was standing in the kitchen of our son's terraced house. Something caught my eye outside in his little urban garden. It was a...
I feel that way when I see pictures of myself.
ReplyDeleteDid any particular incident inspire the poem?
Yes it did Kylie. I found a picture of a woman I knew long ago.
DeleteA reflection of life...of one's role played therein. If there is no reflection...then there is no life...
ReplyDeleteAnd that second remark belongs in a book of wise aphorisms.
DeleteI think we all have such thoughts but more it's a denial that we will grow old.
ReplyDeleteIt's like fat people. They look in mirrors but don'r really see their fatness.
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DeleteYes erm no.
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DeleteI admit I am shocked when I see photos of long lost friends and acquaintances, can't believe how old they look. And then realise they will think the same of me.
ReplyDeleteNo way Sue! I have seen pictures of you and you look young. A lot of this is no doubt down to your optimistic, youthful character.
DeleteSmooth talker.
DeleteYou sussed me Terry!
DeletePeople age so differently, don't they. I meet some of my former classmates once or twice a year; we started this in 2007, decades after I had seen some of them for the last time at school.
ReplyDeleteWith some, I found they had hardly changed, even still wearing the same hairdo. Others I found had aged so visibly, I would not have believed they were born the same year as I if I didn't know.
With men, it is receding hairlines that make a huge difference to me; with women, some enlarge so much around the middle and then start wearing frumpy clothes that they look older than their own grandmas did back then.
You are right to observe that people age differently.
DeleteBut if I might say so Meike, you will remain forever young.
Sometimes it's better not to know, eh?
ReplyDeleteI think you're right Steve. The internet opens up some doors that would have been closed forever in the past.
DeleteQuite true. I've had the same thoughts. I like how you've turned the first line inside out to become the last line.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't examine her with an element of scientific scrutiny without admitting my own frailty.
DeleteI often remark to Tom how everyone we know is looking so old and we are not and I believe it to be true, lol
ReplyDeleteBriony
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We see ourselves ageing so gradually that we can fool ourselves into thinking that we haven't changed.
DeleteAh yes - Old Father Time - happens to us all.
ReplyDeleteI wish he would put down his sickle and take a long break.
DeleteAge is nothing. I am slim and lithe and my hair thick and brown. My skin is gleaming chestnut and my eyes gleam like sapphires twinkling at the bottom of a shallow Hawaiian pool.
ReplyDeleteYou can probably tell that I'm not keen om mirrors.
Only "The Daily Mirror" Ian.
DeleteBetter old than dead...from someone who has seen a thirty year-old dead, lost a 53 year-old friend, another in her early forties, someone not yet sixty and a relative at 102 who the week before her death was out with friends and enjoying herself.
ReplyDeleteYou are right there "e"-life is a lottery. Some people never do grow old - like all those soldiers on memorials.
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